THE TRUTH ABOUT LOURDES

FOREIGN PROBLEMS

Percy Cradock examines how we see the Chinese Robin Blackburn remembers a Belgian Monster Paul Preston's portraits of the Spanish Civil War

PEOPLE

Emma Tennant's High Life * Alec Guinness's Last Appearance

Bonar Law * Wait Whitman * Frederick the Great

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THINGS AND IDEAS

Massie's LIGHTHOUSES, Keen's ORCHIDS, Chancellor's SPECTATOR

Biffen's anxieties about DEVOLUTION, Felling's SEX

APRIL'S AMAZING FICTION

Alastair Niven on SALMAN RUSHDIE * Caroline Moore on VIKRAM SETH Victoria Glendinning on DORIS LESSING * David Profumo on PETER ACKROYD

PLUS reviews by Arnidon, Crosland, Currie, Shakespeare, Taylor and many others

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